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PETER HENDERSON & CO.—WHOLESALE LIST OF BULBS. _ 
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ACHIMENES. 
(Ready in November.) These are splen- 
did and profuse summer blooming plants for 
the conservatory or warm window decoration; 
flowers of many charming colors, ranging 
through all shades from wnite to crimson, in- 
cluding many beautifully spotted. (See cut.) 
Mixed Varieties. rec. each; $1.25 doz. 
The Great African Lily. 
(Ready in November.) These are noble 
ornaments on lawns in pots or tubs on ter- 
races or piazzas or for the decoration of the 
greenhouse. Foliage luxuriant and graceful: 
flowers borne in clusters of 20 to 30, and 
measure fully a foot across. The flower 
stalks frequently attain a height of three feet 
—the flowers opening in succession fora long 
period during the Summer and Autumn. 
Add for postage 10c. each extra. 
Umbellatus. The old favorite; flowers 
bright blue. 18c, each; $2.00 per doz. 
Umbellatus Albus. A beautiful white 
variety. 6o0c, each; $6.00 per doz. 
Umbellatus fl. pl. (See novelties.) 
$1.00 each ; $10.00 per doz. 
ALLIUM. 
The varieties we offer are among the most 
beautiful for pot culture or garden decoration, 
(ney are of the easiest culture. 
Azureum. Truly beautiful either for pot 
or garden culture, being quite hardy, 
flowers deep azure blue, borne in large 
umbels, height, 1 to 2 feet. 20c. each; 
$2.00 per doz. 
Aureum (Molly or Golden 
Allium.) One of our most showy 
border plants. perfectly hardy, bearing 
large umbels of golden yellow flowers in 
June. A very old favorite, and fine for 
naturalizing in the garden, where it forms 
large clumps; height, 1 foot. 3c. each; 
3o0c. per doz,; $2.00 per roo. 
Hermitti Grandiflorum. A splen- 
did winter flowering and forcing variety; 
the flowers last a long time after being 
cut. The flowers are large, of immacu- 
late whiteness, and continue to bloom 
from December to the endof April. (See 
cut.) 5c. each; soc. per doz.; $3.50 per 
100. 
Neapolitanum. Another excellent 
variety for winter flowering, now ex- 
tensively forced by florists for cut flowers, 
being of pure white with green stamens, 
borne in large loose umbels, height, r5 to 
18 inches. 2c. each; 20c. per doz.; $1.00 
per £00.; $7.00 per 1000. 
Ostrowskianum. (See novelties.) A 
beautiful new species with large umbels of 
rose colored flewers. 20c. each; $2.00 doz. 
ALSTROMERIA. 
Peruvian Lilies. (Ready in Nov- 
ember.) Tuberous-rooted plants with beauti- 
ful, large, lily-like flowers, of great beauty, 
borne in clusters during the summer; they are 
splendid for cutting, being of much substance 
Amaryllis Formosissima. 
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and lasting in perfection fora long time. Splen- 
did subjects for either pot culture or for plant- 
ing out in frames. 
Add for postage 10c. each extra. 
Pelegrina. Beautiful flowers of rosy 
white, suffused and spotted with yellow 
and purple. 1 foot. 15c, each; $1.50 per 
doz. 
Psittacina (Parrot Lily). Flegant 
trusses of gladiolus-like flowers of bright 
crimson, splashed with green and maho- 
gany; a profuse blooming and robust 
variety; height 3 feet. roc. each; $1.00 
per doz. 
Versicolor (Peruvianus), Mixed. 
Very robust- and abundant blooming 
varieties. Colors: crimson, rose, yellow, 
purple, etc., shaded and marked, 2 to 4 
feet. roc, each; $1.00 per doz. 
AMARYLLIS, 
Or Knight’s Star Lily. Probably the 
most magnificent and gorgeous bu!bous plant 
known. ‘Their immense flowers, richness of 
coloring and regal habit are simply incompar- 
able. | hey throw up spikes from 18 inches to 
3 feet high, bearing enormous trumpet shaped 
flowers, averaging 6 to 10 inches‘across, of 
great substance, some being of rich and glowing 
colors—others delicately shaded and superbly 
veined. For pot culture in the window, con- 
servatory or greenhouse, they are well adapted 
and when in bloom in the winter and spring 
months, no flower can approach their beauty. 
(Ready ix November.) 
If by mail, add 5c. each for postage. 
Johnsonii. Avery popular variety, wine 
red, with a white stripe down each petal, 
an early and abundant bloomer and a 
specially robust grower. (See cut.) 45¢. 
each ; $4.00 per doz. 
Aulica Platypetala. ‘Lily ofthe 
Palace.’ Flowerslarge and extremely 
handsome, glowing crimson, tipped green. 
Splendid winter bloomer. $1.00 each. 
Reginz ‘Mexican Lily.’ Large 
flowers of dark red shaded with orange 
and white. Very fine ; $1.00 each. 
Graveana. Dark orange, red with white. 
A charming variety. $1.00 each. 
Defiance. Thisisa gem, being a sturdy 
grower, flowering repeatedly during the 
season. Flowers extraordinarily large, of 
velvety carmine red, striped and flecked 
and suffused with white. $1.00 each. 
Prince of Orange. Large flowers of 
orange white andgreen. 35c. each; $3.75 
per doz. 
The set of the above 6 ‘Standard 
Varieties,” $4.50. 
Formosissima (Jacobcean Lily.) 
quaintly shaped beautiful flower of 
grand dark scarlet, free blooming ; forces 
well and can be grown in water like 
Hyacinths; if the bulbs are kept dry 
during winter, they can be planted in the 
open ground in the spring, and will flower 
during the summer. tac. each; $1.25 doz. 
l== Florists’ Forcing Bulbs, Condensed List, on yellow pages A and B. 
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